University of Chicago– Students from the Horticulture Club are building and monitoring habi-hacking devices, designed to maximize the biodiversity on our floating habitat.

Completed Studies

Undergraduate & Community Projects

DePaul University – Business students collected research on similarly based organizations and created case studies, which analyzed several key aspects of said organizations that our team could potentially benchmark off of.

Our Research

We performed some of our own research, which determined that floating gardens are an effective habitat solution in urban waterways:

Co-founder of Urban Rivers, Joshua Yellin, installed 50 square feet of floating gardens in the Chicago River in June of 2013, which served as the basis for his Master’s research study that monitored urban fish populations. Results indicated a nearly 100% increase in the fish abundance in the river immediately surrounding the floating gardens when compared to traditional docks.